Gutenberg’s Project Leadership Sits Down with New Outreach Team to Discuss Problems with the Site Editor
What do you get when you put a handful of outspoken WordPress developers, agencies, product owners, and community advocates on a video call with both the Lead Architect and the Product Owner of the entire Gutenberg project? Hopefully progress. Matt Mullenweg may have surprised a few people when he recently stated that the Gutenberg project still has years of development to go, but I doubt that anyone using it would disagree. The tentpole feature of Gutenberg’s Phase Two, the “Site Editor,” has been in core (and enabled by default for new installations) for the last two years, but the adoption of block-based themes has felt underwhelming at best, especially compared to the market share of page-building tools like Elementor. Everyone has their opinions of the block editor, one need only browse the comments section of this very site to find them. The reality however is that WordPress is a vast and complicated project. While it’s certainly subject to the decisions of its “Benevolent Dictator”, it is also subject to the very real constraints of large-scale, distributed, open-source software development. Not to mention the work is entirely based on contributions, many of which are sponsored by large organizations with their own…
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